We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities. — Agnes Meyer Driscoll Copy Share Image
Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable. — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering it, a nation may willingly run many hazards,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The probabilitation of possibilities is the mother of many unrealistic ideas,uninformative decisions,inappropriate measures and unfair actions because most of the times we… — Mpho Leteng Copy Share Image
Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact,… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“If ever the amount of people getting struck by lightning increases dramatically, it will severely throw off the global measurement of probability.” — Atticus Copy Share Image
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The prospect, that a good general government will in all human probability be soon established in America, affords me more substantial satisfaction;… — George Washington Copy Share Image
At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Customers are wrestling with mission-critical decisions, evaluating solutions that all sound the same, and struggling to achieve the value they expect, when… — Jeff Thull Copy Share Image
If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
How can one know who his spiritual teacher is?...His heart looks at the spiritual Masters and makes the choice. When the heart… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain,… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The probability to follow your dreams and then struggle is close to one, but the probability to win for sure is close… — Shivam Chaudhary Copy Share Image
“If we parallelize quantum mechanics with reality, then we should consider more information than what we perceive as probable and as reality.” — Maria Karvouni Copy Share Image
All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events,… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure,… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
I think having worked in a department store setting, if my life had not taken a drastically different turn when I became… — Cory Monteith Copy Share Image
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image